You being an mechanic will most likely get you a job in the mines in WA (which pay very well).

I have a lot of friends in different trades that live on the east coast that have jobs in the WA mines and they fly in for there shift(not sure how long around 10 ten days) then fly home for 10 days. I think it would be a bit of a crazy lifestyle and definately not for me but if you are living in WA then that is a different story.

Your a HARD lady XB,,,,,,The poor guy & his family are coming from the next best thing to ''Sibera''....and you want to send him out to ...Plus 50deg temps.....in that case Soren,,,,you won't need to bring a toaster,fry pan etc with you...you are going to be able to do your cooking...on the truck bonnet...lol (especially being ''black'')

Life is not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Well,thanks for the tip XB and Rosco:I would rather die of heat exhaustion than to freeze off any valuable parts of my body...the coldest that I ever experienced here was -47°C with a windchill of -62°C (winter of 2007) and it was no fun at all I suppose that there is a lot of mining going on in the outback? I´ve heard something about even to extend the mining because the demand for what ever is mined there is so great....what is mined in WA? Chers Gernod